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Board of Directors:

Leighton W. Carroll
Chairman

Mr. Carroll is a 14 year veteran in the wireless industry and has been the President and CEO of WMS since September of 2005. Mr. Carroll has previously been responsible for the Merger and Integration Team for AT&T Mobility, leading the $5.1 billion Dobson Cellular acquisition integration. Previously he ran Roaming and International Operations for AT&T Mobility. He also led the planning, architecture, and deployment of ~50 systems to 60,000 end-users for Cingular Wireless. While with AT&T Wireless, Mr. Carroll was responsible for all IT systems and services for 3 SBUs. While with Vanguard Cellular Systems, Mr. Carroll was accountable for all customer facing systems for the enterprise. He is a graduate of Virginia Tech and has received executive education at Harvard Business School, MIT, IMD, Wharton Business School, and Wake Forest University.

 

Andrew Quartner
Vice Chairman, Cellport Systems, Inc.

Mr. Quartner is a commercial attorney with over twenty years of experience in the wireless telecommunications industry. He began his telecommunications career in 1985 with McCaw Cellular Communications (now AT&T Wireless) and was involved in a wide variety of financial transactions, joint ventures and acquisitions.

In 1997, Mr. Quartner joined XO Communications serving in a similar capacity, and also joined Cellport Systems, Inc. as Vice Chairman and General Counsel. Mr. Quartner served as a Director of American Mobile Satellite Corporation (now Motient) for twelve years.

Since 2002, in addition to his position with Cellport Systems, Mr. Quartner has served as an outside advisor to several telecommunications companies, including Maritime Telecommunications Network and its affiliates, and is of counsel with Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman LLP in New York.

Mr. Quartner holds a BA degree from Yale University and a JD from Columbia University.

 

Nick Jones
Vice President of Finance for AT&T Mobility

Mr. Jones oversees financial planning and analysis for AT&T Mobility and is responsible for field operations in 27 markets.

In 1991 Mr. Jones joined Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems in the financial planning department.  Subsequently, Mr. Jones served as Vice President of Finance and Operations for multiple markets. Starting in 2000, with the formation of Cingular Wireless, Mr. Jones served as Regional CFO for markets in the Central part of the country and later for the Western half of the country.   In 2005, Mr. Jones took over Financial Planning for Cingular Wireless/AT&T Mobility.  In 2008, Mr. Jones began serving as Vice President of Finance for AT&T Mobility.

Mr. Jones holds a BBA degree from Texas A&M University and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Dallas.  Mr. Jones currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia.

 

Jon Anderson
Founding Partner of Ignition Partners

Mr. Anderson is a founding partner of Ignition. He invests in enterprise data and applications companies and represents Ignition as director on the boards of Full Capture SolutionsMarketRangeJobster and N'Site Solutions. Jon is a former board member of Wildseed which was acquired by AOL.

Prior to Ignition, Jon spent nine years at Microsoft Corporation in several strategic roles, advising the company's executive management on overall business strategy, guiding such key issues as enterprise licensing and pricing, financing and P&L management. Most recently he led a team responsible for development and execution of Microsoft's volume licensing programs, an $8 billion business, negotiations of licensing agreements with Microsoft's largest customers and the enhancement of core product business and licensing models and creation of business models for emerging products.

Jon also served as General Manager of Worldwide Business Strategy for Steve Ballmer and as Corporate Controller. Jon led the creation of the company's current P&L, measurement and competitive reporting systems. Jon led efforts that made changes to business models for core products that lead to multi-billion dollar profit contributions. Jon led or was a core member of the teams leading company acquisitions including FoxPro, Visio, Microsoft's first email product, Microsoft Mail, and the company's proposed merger with Intuit.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Jon was a CPA and Senior Manager with Deloitte & Touche, where he served as an advisor to companies ranging from Fortune 500 corporations to new technology start-ups.

Mr. Anderson attended the University of Oregon and received his degree in business administration from Central Washington University.
 

 
 


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